TAM Brazil Fokker F-100 plane crash
Key facts
- Airline
- TAM Brazil
- Aircraft
- Fokker F-100
- Location
- Aracatuba, Brazil
- Date
- 30th August, 2002
- People on board
- 28
- Fatality
- 0
Accident account
The aircraft, on a passenger flight from São Paulo to Campo Grande, crashed in a farm field near the town of Aracatuba, 325 miles northwest of São Paulo. The aircraft reportedly suffered some sort of fuel leak, and was forced to land when the fuel onboard the aircraft became exhausted. None of the 28 passengers and crew aboard were seriously injured, however, the aircraft was written off.
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